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Table Of Contents

FileMaker Server 9 Help
About FileMaker Server
New features in FileMaker Server 9
Deploying FileMaker Server
- Which deployment type is right for me?
- Testing FileMaker Server
- Checking the status of your deployment
- Changing a FileMaker Server deployment
Starting Admin Console
Hosting databases
- Editing accounts and privilege sets
- Uploading database files
  - Uploading database files manually
- Verifying databases are available to FileMaker Pro clients
Hosting websites
- Hosting PHP websites
- Hosting XSLT websites
- Hosting databases for XML queries
- Using Instant Web Publishing
Starting and stopping FileMaker Server
Configuring general settings
- Server information settings
- Email notification settings
- Admin Console settings
- Auto Start settings
Configuring Database Server settings
- FileMaker Pro client settings
- Database settings
  - Cache flushing operation
- Database Server security settings
  - External authentication for database access
- Default folder settings
- Logging and statistics settings
- Server plug-in settings
Configuring web publishing settings
- General web publishing settings
- PHP web publishing settings
- XSLT web publishing settings
  - Text encoding for XSLT requests
  - Configuring the interaction between web sessions and database sessions
- XML web publishing settings
- Instant Web Publishing settings
Administering clients
- Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients
- Disconnecting clients
Administering databases
- Sending messages to FileMaker Pro clients of selected databases
- Opening hosted files
- Closing hosted files
- Pausing hosted files
- Resuming hosted files
- Removing hosted files
Using ODBC and JDBC with FileMaker Server
- Sharing FileMaker databases via ODBC and JDBC
  - Enabling sharing via ODBC and JDBC
- Accessing external ODBC data sources
Monitoring FileMaker Server
- Viewing statistics
- Tracking activity in log files
Managing plug-ins
- Enabling server-side plug-ins
  - Folders for server-side plug-in files
  - Changing plug-in file permissions (Mac OS)
- Enabling auto-update for plug-ins
  - Preparing Mac OS plug-in files for conversion to .tar format
Securing your data
Scheduling administrative tasks
- Scheduling database backups
  - Tips for database backups
- Running server-side scripts
  - Running ScriptMaker scripts
  - Running system-level script files
- Sending scheduled messages to clients of hosted databases
- Creating schedules
  - Examples of repeating schedules
- Editing schedules
- Duplicating a schedule
- Deleting a schedule
- Running a schedule manually
- Enabling and disabling schedules
Troubleshooting
- Deployment problems
- Admin Console problems
- General problems
- Network problems
- Problems on client computers
- FileMaker Server event log messages
- Command line error messages
- Improving performance
Checking for updates
About the license key
Command line reference
- fmsadmin commands
Glossary
Registration
Customer support and Knowledge Base
Copyright information

Troubleshooting General problems

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General problems

FileMaker Server is sending too many email messages

You have many, frequently-run scheduled tasks with email notifications enabled. Try disabling email

notifications or remove email addresses for some scheduled tasks. Also, see Receiving email

notifications only when a schedule fails (page 148).

None of the scheduled tasks are running

FileMaker Server has been configured not to allow any schedules to run. To allow FileMaker Server

to run enabled schedules, click Schedules and select Allow schedules to run.

The path for my additional database folder or backup database folder is not

valid

Check the ownership and permissions of the folder. When you click Validate in the Database

Server > Default Folders tab or the Schedule assistant

, Admin Console may fail to validate a folder

path because the folder does not have the correct permissions. Check that the folder is owned by

the user fmserver (or in the group fmsadmin) and has read and write permissions. See Tips for

valid folders (page 75).